ARTIST BIO
Hi, I'm Ruth, and I've been a fan of Celtic knotwork since I was about twelve. I love the patterns, the symmetry (or not) and the use of the natural world. I work in mixed media, acrylic, and fiber. I also paint stone tiles, usually animals or small knots. I have a series of knotwork Pride stickers
Blue knots painted with clear glass acrylic topped by a knotted doe arch, 24" x 48"
Square cross knot on black background, covered with thin spiral patterened paper, 48" x 60"
Three layers of painted, cut, and pasted sheer cloth on canvas board, 12" x 12"
Paper, cloth, thread, string, acrylic paint, (I forget, 18" x 20"?)
the one that started it all, the original knotwork blooming ball cacti with pink flowers, 24" x 48".
Wood board with archangel ram for my darling nephew. Text reads Heaven is only as far away as Love.
Knot sun with knot rays setting over knot hills, (10" x 24", don't quite remember the size)
Desert landscape made of knots, (really don't recall, (12" x 24")?
Knotwork saguaro blossom and buds, seen from above, 18" x 24"
Paper and crochet christmas cactus, even in a little pot. Probably about 16" x 16" x 16"
A second take on the blooming ball cacti series, 18" x 18"
Coyote Breath. He's my favorite symbol. Blue on blue stylized coyote huffing into cool air, about 4" x 5".
Third go at ball cacti from above, this time in yellow-greens and magenta on blue, 18" x 18"
Just a bunch of colored pencil grackles, hanging out on some dead grass, like every Texas summer ever, somewhere around 14" x 20".
Embroidery with beads and paint, Raven in shiny black threads with multicolored accents and the moon in iridescent green knotwork, 20" x 24"
Knotwork embroidered swan on sheer fabric, framed 13" x 18"
knotwork doe (a deer, a female deer) with raised paint done in metallic greens, 12" x 24"
knotwork stag done in raised paint and metallic blues, 12" x 24"
knotwork heart in metallic reds, 18" x 18"
Embroidery of Raven stealing the sun, with, of course, Celtic knots interwoven into one wing and foot, about 5" x 7" I think?
Spined and sectioned cacti at night with stylized night-blooming flowers in painted handmade paper stitched to canvas, 20" x 20", ish.
Thumper, the companion piece to Coyote Breath, bright blue linework on dark blue background, about 5" x 7".
Thread, Sharpie, and feather roadrunner set against a bright yellow Zia sun with knotted sunbeams, framed 16" x 16".
Mottled watercolor style sunrise background, knotted old live oak tree, possibly 10" x 20"?
A knotwork pentacle with, from bottom center clockwise, a woman, a stag, a raven, a serpent, and a hound, on a wood circle.
An embroidered wrap, in semisheer pearlescent pale blue fabric, shiny blue morning glories with green vines and leaves, don't remember anymore how big it is. The worked section is I think 15" x 45".
Greens and raised copper cross knot, round, 24" x 24".
Black and charcoal night sky with pearl-white moon surrounded by a halo of stars, prickly pear cactus made of fabric and beads, with lino-printed "leaves", 18" x 24", I think?
Blue cross knot with silver crescent moon, I think 12" x 18"
Dogs in diagonal corners, 8" x 10"